Battlefield of Language: Controversy and Discussion in a Gaming Community - A Corpus Linguistics Study

As I had announced a few months ago I did a study in corpus linguistics this year, analyzing the language used by different groups within the BF4 community (with overlaps, of course) in regards to the spring patch.

I'll attach a largely de-personalized version of the paper to this post.

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Of course, this ignores the non-constant cross-sectional first moment of area across the chest as well as non-constant material properties of the boob; it would be difficult to perform a more detailed analysis (as in, I'd have to have a shape function AND I'd need to derive a function for elastic modulus as a function of lateral breast coordinate) but whatever. It's 2am and I'm lazy.

You should also answer this question I had posed in that thread: Would you be willing to pay your surgeon more if he was going to use a chainsaw for the opening incision of surgery? Clearly using a chainsaw isn't truly suited for surgery but that doesn't really matter. If he's "skilled" enough to be able to use the wrong tools of the trade, he should be rewarded for that skill right?

Ah yes I was wondering if somebody mentioned something about doing research on linguistics regarding gaming or something .
Will start skimming and reading through this later today! Looks promising with a quick glimpse.

Hm, indico seems very simplistic and reductionist to me - the kind of analysis that would perfectly suit a clickbaity pseudo-"popular science" article on buzzfeed or some such.

If I understood *how* it arrived at its results I could probably lend it some credence, but as it stands I don't see it being of any use in scientific work. I have no grasp whatsoever for programming and coding, so I can't do much beyond use its basic APIs. I did my evaluation largely with AntConc, excel and a few online based t-tests.

Memorable quotes not taken yet:

Of course, this ignores the non-constant cross-sectional first moment of area across the chest as well as non-constant material properties of the boob; it would be difficult to perform a more detailed analysis (as in, I'd have to have a shape function AND I'd need to derive a function for elastic modulus as a function of lateral breast coordinate) but whatever. It's 2am and I'm lazy.

You should also answer this question I had posed in that thread: Would you be willing to pay your surgeon more if he was going to use a chainsaw for the opening incision of surgery? Clearly using a chainsaw isn't truly suited for surgery but that doesn't really matter. If he's "skilled" enough to be able to use the wrong tools of the trade, he should be rewarded for that skill right?

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If I understood *how* it arrived at its results I could probably lend it some credence, but as it stands I don't see it being of any use in scientific work.

Umm actually it is exactly based on scientific work, altho dunno how good those models really are (never tried them) but the principle is the same as they use at google. If trained well enough those can be actually used in real life applications (again, Google as a main example).
And as far as I know neural networks are kind of black box to scientists: They do not know exactly why they work, they just work

Links to users' thread list who have made analytical/statistical/mathematical/cool posts on Symthic:

3VerstsNorth - Analysis of game mechanics in BF4 (tickrates, effects of tickrate, etc)

Memorable quotes not taken yet:

Of course, this ignores the non-constant cross-sectional first moment of area across the chest as well as non-constant material properties of the boob; it would be difficult to perform a more detailed analysis (as in, I'd have to have a shape function AND I'd need to derive a function for elastic modulus as a function of lateral breast coordinate) but whatever. It's 2am and I'm lazy.

You should also answer this question I had posed in that thread: Would you be willing to pay your surgeon more if he was going to use a chainsaw for the opening incision of surgery? Clearly using a chainsaw isn't truly suited for surgery but that doesn't really matter. If he's "skilled" enough to be able to use the wrong tools of the trade, he should be rewarded for that skill right?

On a side note, you should proofread it more thoroughly if this is for school.

It's for university, lecturer found two orthographical errors I missed and a few grammatical and lexical choices he's not *quite* d'accord with. Having one in the first sentence is kind of shameful, though.

Memorable quotes not taken yet:

Of course, this ignores the non-constant cross-sectional first moment of area across the chest as well as non-constant material properties of the boob; it would be difficult to perform a more detailed analysis (as in, I'd have to have a shape function AND I'd need to derive a function for elastic modulus as a function of lateral breast coordinate) but whatever. It's 2am and I'm lazy.

You should also answer this question I had posed in that thread: Would you be willing to pay your surgeon more if he was going to use a chainsaw for the opening incision of surgery? Clearly using a chainsaw isn't truly suited for surgery but that doesn't really matter. If he's "skilled" enough to be able to use the wrong tools of the trade, he should be rewarded for that skill right?

It's for university, lecturer found two orthographical errors I missed and a few grammatical and lexical choices he's not *quite* d'accord with. Having one in the first sentence is kind of shameful, though.

Well, the good news is that you can fix those in the interim.

I just finished having a look at it (thorough reading that gradually devolved to perusing as i approached the end), and it looks pretty good.

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Paper was handed in on Sept. 17. I didn't want to put it up somewhere else before it was graded and returned to me.

Gotta say I wasn't sure what my lecturer would think of it, but I got full marks for it, despite expecting a 2.0 (or "B" if you will) at best. Those two errors and other questionable linguistic choices, while shameful, didn't impact the grade.

Memorable quotes not taken yet:

Of course, this ignores the non-constant cross-sectional first moment of area across the chest as well as non-constant material properties of the boob; it would be difficult to perform a more detailed analysis (as in, I'd have to have a shape function AND I'd need to derive a function for elastic modulus as a function of lateral breast coordinate) but whatever. It's 2am and I'm lazy.

You should also answer this question I had posed in that thread: Would you be willing to pay your surgeon more if he was going to use a chainsaw for the opening incision of surgery? Clearly using a chainsaw isn't truly suited for surgery but that doesn't really matter. If he's "skilled" enough to be able to use the wrong tools of the trade, he should be rewarded for that skill right?

Gotta say I wasn't sure what my lecturer would think of it, but I got full marks for it, despite expecting a 2.0 (or "B" if you will) at best. Those two errors and other questionable linguistic choices, while shameful, didn't impact the grade.

That's nice! Well, it's reasonable, given that English is not your first language.